I can't control how high my song goes on the charts, you know what I mean. I mean, I can sway it a little bit by working as hard as I can, hopefully being a decent person and giving good interviews and working hard on the road and being nice to people and shaking hands and doing everything you can do.
When you can't do road work for a week-and-a-half, that's really hard on your weight cut.
As a stand-up comic, you have to do the road.
During the day I'll work on music. I have a sampler and a drum machine out with me and I write new songs while we're on the road.
I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I'm gaining weight, I want to record if the Lord wants me to still record, and I just want to do my work on the road as long as I got those fans out there.
Why does Louis CK get named Comedy Person of the Year? I should be named Comedy Person of the Year just so I can parlay it into another few weeks of road work.
That space between the white lines, that's my office. That's where I conduct my business.
I am a man in a hurry. We have to work both from office and roadside. I am impatient.
I'm on the road five days a week in a different city every day.
I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up. And I knew I could, at worst, work as a stand-up. And I like to travel, and I knew I wanted to do an hour special, so in order to get ready for that, I had to hit the road.
If I hadn't done this I might have ended up digging the roads.
The road is a lot of work.
I used to work selling ice lollies and sweets on the road. I worked at a car wash as well.
I was smart or lucky or both. I saved my money. I was on TV for 10 years, and then I spent eight more years on the road. Working on the road is where you really can save money if you put your mind to it.
The fun of working on the road means stealing from hotels. I've been doing it for so long, I have a set of towels from the Ark.